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Civilisées
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Civilisées (A Civilized People or Al Mutahaddirat) is a 1999 Lebanese dark comedy drama film written and directed by filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 1999 and later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was also screened at the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, California.
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7.0Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag spins this bleak war drama about the brutal absurdity of the urban warfare of Beirut during the 1980s. Opening with the shocking image of kittens being blown apart, the film loosely follows the travails of Bernadette (Nada Ghosn), a naïve country girl sent to the city as a maid for a mansion long since abandoned by the owners. There she meets Therese (Renee Dick), a veteran house cleaner who takes her under her wing. One day, while accompanying her friend to the cemetery, she meets a rakish Arab militiaman, and the two fall in love.
Cast
- Jalila Baccar as Viviane
- Tamim Chahal as Samir
- Myrna Maakaron as Souad
- Carmen Lebbos as Najat
- Sotigui Kouyaté as Ousmane
- Renée Dick as Thérèse
Themes
- woman director
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country of origin
- Lebanon
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Randa Chahal Sabag
- Screenwriter
- Randa Chahal Sabag
- Cast member
- Bruno Todeschini
- Composer
- Ziad Rahbani
- Duration
- 97
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- publication date
- 1999-01-01
- title
- المتحضرات
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Civilisées (A Civilized People or Al Mutahaddirat) is a 1999 Lebanese dark comedy drama film written and directed by filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 1999 and later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was also screened at the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, California.
==Premise== During the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), many well-off Lebanese families fled the country to look for their personal interests internationally, leaving their residences under the care of maids and laborers from Egypt, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The film draws a portrait of a war-tormented Beirut neighborhood, and the love between a Muslim militia fighter and a Christian maid.
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